Geography
What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra.
What is the chemical symbol for water?
H2O.
Who is the blue dog in the Australian kids' show Bluey?
Bluey.
What are Australia's national colours?
Green and Gold
What is the fairy tale where a girl leaves behind a glass slipper?
Cinderella.
Name one country that shares a border with China.
North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam
What planet is known as the Red Planet?
Mars.
What is the name of the Disney movie about a character called Simba? (double points if you guess the year it it came out!)
The Lion King (1994).
What Australian animal is known for carrying its baby in a pouch and hopping?
Kangaroo
What is the name of the world's largest river?
The Nile River.
What is the longest river in Australia?
Murray river.
What force keeps us on the ground?
Gravity.
What movie franchise features a character named Darth Vader?
Star Wars.
What is the Indigenous name for Ayers Rock?
Uluru
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which continent is both the driest and coldest?
Antarctica.
What is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis.
Which singer is known as the King of Pop?
Michael Jackson.
What year did Australia become a federation?
1901.
What is the largest organ in the human body?
The skin.
Name all the states and territories of Australia.
New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory.
What element has the chemical symbol ‘Fe’?
Iron.
What is the highest-grossing film of all time? (double points if you guess the amount of money it made!)
Avatar (2009) - $2.9 billion.
Who was the first Prime Minister of Australia?
Sir Edmund Barton
In Roman mythology, who was the king of the gods? (Double points if you can also name the Greek king of the gods!)
Jupiter. (Zeus in Greek)